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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 31, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inaugurates a new promenade in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on July 31, 2019, alongside Efrat Mayor Oded Revevi. (Igur Osdetchi)

'No settlement or settler will be uprooted. That is over'

After okaying Palestinian homes, Netanyahu vows Jewish settlements are ‘forever’

PM inaugurates new promenade in Efrat, whose mayor was one of the few settler leaders not to knock building plans; rival Gantz says he won’t give up Jordan Valley in peace deal

Illustrative: In this June 25, 2019, photo released by Bahrain News Agency, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, fifth from left, and Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, sixth from left, listen to White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, standing, during the opening session of the "Peace to Prosperity" workshop in Manama, Bahrain (Bahrain News Agency via AP)

Israel media reviewHaving your peace plan and eating it too: 7 things to know for July 31

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the press during his visit in Har Homa, on March 16, 2015. (Menahem Kahana/AFP))

Security cabinet approves plan granting Palestinians 700 building permits

US President Donald Trump steps off Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, December 17, 2017, after returning from Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US planning to roll out peace plan at meeting with Arab leaders – report

Israeli paper says invitations to be extended by Kushner during Middle East trip this week, Netanyahu helped plan conference but unlikely to attend

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman addresses the Israeli-Palestinian International Economic Forum in Jerusalem on February 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US ambassador to Israel: Trump peace plan will encourage Palestinian ‘autonomy’

US Envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at the Israel Hayom forum in Jerusalem on June 27, 2019. (Gideon Markovitz)

US peace envoy: Israeli-Palestinian peace is Iran’s worst nightmare

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd from right) meets at his Jerusalem office with the ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer (right); White House adviser Jared Kushner (center); US Ambassador David Friedman (second left); and special envoy Jason Greenblatt, on July 31, 2019. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Kushner, Greenblatt meet Netanyahu to discuss US peace plan

PM hails ‘important’ talks with White House advisers touring region to drum up support for part II of administration’s proposal

6:19 pm

First suspect in Netanyahu corruption probe wraps up pre-indictment hearing
6:09 pm

US intel officials say Hamza bin Laden killed
5:47 pm

Kushner, Greenblatt meet Netanyahu for talks on US peace plan

Employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and their families protest against job cuts announced by the agency outside its offices in Gaza City on July 31, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Israel’s UN envoy urges world to defund UNRWA over alleged misconduct

By AFP and ToI Staff

Danny Danon says damning internal ethics report is ‘alarming, but not surprising’; Switzerland and the Netherlands suspend aid

Israel: Canada ruling on labeling settlement wines ‘encouraging’ BDS

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Spanish politician of Palestinian descent denied entry to Israel

By Stuart Winer

Germany disciplines diplomats over anti-Israel social media activity

By AP and ToI Staff

Retired major general Yair Golan at a conference held at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on July 7, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

A general’s warning: Yair Golan says only Democratic Camp can mend Israel’s ills

No.3 on the left-wing union’s slate says the party can enlarge the center-left, unseat Netanyahu, and ‘continue the disengagement’ by, in principle, setting Israel’s borders

Stav Shaffir speaks during a press conference announcing the Democratic Camp in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Turning full attention to Democratic Camp, Stav Shaffir resigns from Knesset

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman at a campaign event for his party in Tel Aviv on July 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Announcing Knesset slate, Liberman vows to force unity government

By ToI Staff and JTA

Zehut leader Moshe Feiglin submits his party's list of candidates to the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset on July 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Filing party slates

Zehut submits candidate slate, closing door on merger with United Right

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Moshe Feiglin’s party to go it alone in September elections, despite calls from right-wing alliance to join forces

Otzma Yehudit party members Michael Ben Ari, center, Itamar Ben Gvir, right, and Baruch Marzel, left, at a press conference in response to the Supreme Court decision to disqualify Ben Ari from running in the April 2019 elections over his record of racist incitement, in Jerusalem on March 17, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fringe far-right parties agree to terms of joint election run

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Ayelet Shaked speaks at a press conference in Ramat Gan on July 21, 2019, after she is announced as the new head of the New Right party. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

After merger, poll predicts Shaked’s United Right will be third-largest party

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz addressing party activists in Shefayim, July 14, 2019. (Jane Peimer)

Gantz doesn’t rule out coalition with New Right

Blue and White leader says he’d invite Shaked and Bennett to join him in government, but not their ‘extremist’ partner Smotrich

Labor chief Amir Peretz at the opening of the party's new election headquarters in Tel Aviv, on July 24, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor ‘looks certain’ to run independently of left-wing union, party sources say

By Raoul Wootliff

Screen capture from video of Democratic Camp member Ehud Barak appealing for parties in the left camp to unite ahead of Knesset elections, July 30, 2019. (Twitter)

Barak urges union of all center-left parties on combined slate for elections

I’m from Ilhan Omar’s district, but she doesn’t represent me

Her support of BDS legislation is anti-Semitic, which contradicts our national values of liberty and justice for all

Baltimore is rat-infested and Cummings is culpable

The Jewish community was too quick to defend the Congressman, who seeks to move poor people on up instead of fixing their neighborhoods

Really, why don’t liberals like Trump?

We simply believe a government’s top priority is to care for the weakest sectors of society. He’s doing the opposite

Sheldon Kirshner

Let the label show: West Bank settlement, not Israel

Canadian consumers have the right to accurate information on imports from the Psagot and Shiloh wineries

Marie Sophie Hingst (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

German historian who fabricated family’s Holocaust history found dead at 31

By JTA

Marie Sophie Hingst sent 22 pages of testimony for nonexistent people to Yad Vashem

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal at a Hanukkah ceremony at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, December 6, 2015. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images/via JTA)

Rabbi attacked in apparent anti-Semitic incident in Berlin

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Richard Nixon, left, greets Gov. Ronald Reagan, right, as the California chief executive arrives in San Diego on August 16, 1968. (Henry Burroughs/AP)

Reagan, in 1971 phone call to Nixon, called African UN delegates ‘monkeys’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Infuriated at countries supporting a vote to accept China into international body, California governor told US president that ‘they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes’

Trump ‘rodent’ tweets ring true at Kushner-owned Baltimore apartments

By regina garcia cano and Bernard Condon

Presidents have made racist gestures throughout US history

By Russell Contreras

Leading Jewish Democrat in House backs Trump’s impeachment

Four-year old Issawiyeh resident Muhammad Rabi Elayyan, who Palestinians say was summoned by Israeli police on suspicion that he threw rocks at officers (Twitter screenshot)

Police debunk Palestinian reports they summoned a boy, 4, for throwing rocks

After story of East Jerusalem boy’s summoning goes viral, drawing reactions from Arab MKs and PA officials, authorities show they ordered father, not son, to come for questioning

Hate crime graffiti found in the northern Arab Israeli town of Jisr az-Zarka, July 31, 2019. (Israel Police)

Jewish hate crime suspected in northern Arab Israeli town

A view of the heavy-water production plant in the central Iranian town of Arak, August 26, 2006. (AP/ ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)

US to extend Iran nuclear sanctions waivers – report

By ToI Staff and AP

Washington Post quotes official saying Trump administration remains committed to eventually ending waivers allowing work on Iranian civil nuclear program

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks to the media after arriving at Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, July 23, 2019. (Juan Karita/AP)

Iran dismisses Pompeo’s ‘hypocritical’ offer to visit

British navy vessel HMS Montrose escorts another ship during a mission at sea off coast of Cyprus in February 2014. (UK Ministry of Defence via AP)

UK warship commander says Iran trying ‘to test’ Britain in Gulf

By AFP

'A Sick Day for Morris McGee,' one of the performances coming to Israel for the annual Puppet Theater festival, August 18-22, 2019 (Courtesy Dor Kermi)

String play

Puppets to descend upon Jerusalem for annual festival

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

A composite image of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and former Bezeq controlling shareholder, Shaul Elovitch. (Flash90: Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

First suspect in Netanyahu corruption probe up for pre-indictment hearing

Screen capture of the Young Israel of Greater Miami synagogue. (Google Maps)

After shooting, Florida Jews say they ‘no longer feel comfortable’ in synagogue

Illustrative image of a heart attack, heart failure and resuscitation (Chalabala; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli startup develops blood pump to help treat heart failure

By Shoshanna Solomon

A whale shark swimming in the Red Sea off the coast of Eilat, July 2019. (Shani Aloush, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Specimens of world’s largest shark seen four times in six weeks off Eilat coast

Illustrative photo of a nursery in a Jerusalem hospital's maternity ward. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

A girl has a nameArya joins most popular names in Israel in 2018

A cannabis plant at the Knesset in 2009 for a meeting on medical marijuana in the parliament's Labor, Welfare and Health Committee. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Police bust pot-growing operation in daycare center

US singer Jennifer Lopez arrives at Ben Gurion Airport, ahead of her concert in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2019. (Flash90)

She's RealJennifer Lopez lands in Israel ahead of concert

Former Peruvian President (2001-2006) Alejandro Toledo speaking during a discussion on Venezuela and the OAS at The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, June 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Mandel Ngan)

Peruvian ex-president denied bail over fears he would flee to Israel

By Gabe Stutman

The scene of a stabbing near the Beit Dror LGBT youth hostel in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2019. (Screen capture/Channel 13)

Brothers of youth stabbed outside LGBT hostel in Tel Aviv turn themselves in

Lightricks' Facetune app (YouTube screenshot)

Israel’s photo-editing apps maker Lightricks raises $135m at $1b valuation

By Shoshanna Solomon

Jefferson Henry Kraft is (probably) the youngest correspondent in the Democratic debate spin room in Detroit on July 30, 2019. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

New mediaFresh coverage of Democratic debates brought by Jewish kid, 10

Alan Dershowitz at NEP Studios in New York, February 3, 2016. (John Lamparski/Getty Images for Hulu, via JTA)

Dershowitz defends ’97 column claiming statutory rape an ‘outdated concept’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll and Ben Sales

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